I originally painted my chrome grills, matte black on my tiag, thought they were kinda boring and chipped like crazy without a clear coat. After wrapping my roof gloss black I used the left over vinyl to wrap the top mustache parts of the grilled. I liked the look alot better so I repainted the bottom half gloss black.

IMO gloss grills on the pre lci e90s look much better because of the larger surface area on top. On the other models I don't think it makes a huge difference.

YES!!! haha matte black gives an agressive look but looks really cheap to a lot of people. gloss/painted is the way to go, it gives a classy clean look to it that you won't regret. Also for those who have black cars gloss works extremely well at night! :]]

I replaced just the inner grille section with matte black and left the chrome outer ring on my E92. Looks good to me and in consistent with the silver window trim on the rest of the car. Mine is Jet Black so the contrast is very nice.

YES!!! haha matte black gives an agressive look but looks really cheap to a lot of people. gloss/painted is the way to go, it gives a classy clean look to it that you won't regret. Also for those who have black cars gloss works extremely well at night! :]]

Interesting , I started with performance gloss and switched to matte black